Lemmy is quickly becoming (maybe it always was) a self masturbatory exercise in anti-capitalist Marxist thought. Don’t get me wrong, we need to fight capitalism at every moment. This is THE moment.
However, what I’ve gleaned is that the discussion here cannot step away from theory into the realm of prescriptions. Because prescriptions would entail confronting the harsh reality of the real world and end the little intellectual amusement park that are the lefty anti-capitalist memes.
In other words, Lemmy is acting exactly as designed: a containment space for tankie and lefties to never have to contend with real world actions. Billionaires love spaces like Lemmy because if we ever move the conversation away from memes, thats when they start shaking. But they know exactly that won’t happen in places like Lemmy. The merry-go-round is just so much fun!
Correct, but it’s sort of self inflicted because the high level discourse is what’s valuable here. Would you like to dissect the labor theory of value? You’re in the right place!
Lemmy is quickly becoming (maybe it always was) a self masturbatory exercise in anti-capitalist Marxist thought. Don’t get me wrong, we need to fight capitalism at every moment. This is THE moment.
However, what I’ve gleaned is that the discussion here cannot step away from theory into the realm of prescriptions. Because prescriptions would entail confronting the harsh reality of the real world and end the little intellectual amusement park that are the lefty anti-capitalist memes.
In other words, Lemmy is acting exactly as designed: a containment space for tankie and lefties to never have to contend with real world actions. Billionaires love spaces like Lemmy because if we ever move the conversation away from memes, thats when they start shaking. But they know exactly that won’t happen in places like Lemmy. The merry-go-round is just so much fun!
In a word: distraction. Alternately, the “circuses” in “bread and circuses”
Correct, but it’s sort of self inflicted because the high level discourse is what’s valuable here. Would you like to dissect the labor theory of value? You’re in the right place!